A little bit of this and a little of that

Earlier today, a New York judge dismissed a suit filed by Robert Trump, brother of you-know-who, which clears the way for his niece, Mary Trump, to release her book, due out next month.

Now, it has come to light that Robert Trump had just been released from the hospital when he was presumably persuaded by big brother Donald to file the suit, in the faint hope that whatever secrets might lie in the book would remain concealed.

As we mentioned, Mary Trump's book is from the same folks who brought you John Bolton's The Room Where it Happened, Simon & Schuster.

The score: Simon & Schuster 2, Donald Trump 0.
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Seems a group of good ol' boys got all butt-hurt when NASCAR agreed to ban the Confederate flag at the request of African-American driver Bubba Wallace prior to Monday's race at Talladega.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, based in Columbia, Tennessee, arranged for a banner, which read, "Defund NASCAR", to fly over the track. SCV frontman Paul Gramling, Jr. claims that NASCAR is violating 1st Amendment rights of freedom of speech.

No, they're not.

NASCAR is a privately owned business, and thus reserves the right to ban anything or anyone that goes against their standards. They acted to protect Wallace as they would any of their other drivers.

SCV plans on flying the banner at more NASCAR events this summer, including in their home state of Tennessee, unless someone schools them on the 1st Amendment.
                                  

"Duhhh, you think that'll happen?"

I certainly hope so. Unfortunately, Gramling's ignorance of the 1st Amendment gets him a Dunce Cap.
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Earlier, we reported how WWE superstar Alexa Bliss has had to deal with death threats aimed at her musician-boyfriend, Ryan Cabrera. That ain't the only issue plaguing WWE.

Agent-producer Adam Pearce, recently seen on Smackdown in a prominent speaking role for a change, and reporters Kayla Braxton and Renee Young have tested positive for COVID-19. For Braxton, this is the 2nd time she's contracted the virus, the first being back in March. Young, the wife of AEW champion Jon Moxley, made her announcement several hours after Moxley withdrew from last night's episode of AEW Dynamite as a precautionary measure. Once AEW owner Tony Khan made the announcement of Moxley being scratched from the show, I can imagine fans put the pieces together.

Moxley is still scheduled to defend the AEW title vs. Brian Cage on July 8. Cage's spokesman, Taz, cut a promo after Cage's match last night, and, in the context of the storyline, claimed Moxley's excuse was BS. In reality, it's anything but, and Moxley, along with fellow wrestler QT Marshall, who was also scratched for the same reason, erred on the side of caution to protect their fellow performers. We commend them for using caution.
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Actress-turned-fashion designer Lisa Rinna (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, ex-Another World) hawks her fashion line on QVC in her spare time. However, she took to Twitter to note that the shopping network is caving to complaints from viewers about her political views. Addressing the complainers as "Karens", the internet slang for artificially entitled white women trampling on the rights of minorities for whatever, Rinna agreed to the network's request not to discuss politics.

Then again, politics on either side of the aisle has no place on a shopping network, unless it's initiated by a network host for an interview.